THE GUARDIAN: George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. The evidence
has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator’s action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
The debate over Prescott Bush‘s behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the “Bush/Nazi” connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis’ plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler’s rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty. Remarkably, little of Bush’s dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him. MORE
RELATED: “Some seem to believe we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” Bush told the Israeli lawmakers. “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is — the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”
BBC: A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President’s grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. According to the BBC, the plotters intended to impose a fascist takeover and “Adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.” MORE
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SORTA RELATED: SEOUL, South Korea — One journalist’s bid to report mass murder in South Korea in
1950 was blocked by his British publisher. Another correspondent was denounced as a possibly treasonous fabricator when he did report it. In South Korea, down the generations, fear silenced those who knew. Fifty-eight years ago, at the outbreak of the Korean War, South Korean authorities secretively executed, usually without legal process, tens of thousands of southern leftists and others rightly or wrongly identified as sympathizers. Today a government Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to dig up the facts, and the remains of victims. How could such a bloodbath have been hidden from history? MORE
BBC: Newly-released US military documents say that more than 2,000 Korean prisoners were executed without trial at the beginning of the Korean War. South Korean forces, sometimes observed by US Army officers, killed the prisoners because they were suspected of Communist sympathies. Information about the South Korean Government’s mass executions was suppressed 
for decades under the country’s former military rulers. The documents — two brief US Army reports on shootings in the village of Dokchon and high-level correspondence that resulted from them — have provided vital evidence of the killings. The documents, obtained by the Associated Press, bear out testimony from witnessed. Victims’ families have petitioned the South Korean Government for investigations of at least 10 alleged civilian massacres. Villagers in the Dokchon area remember truckloads of civilians, trussed together, brought to the hills and executed by South Korean military police. One of the documents showed that the US ambassador to South Korea at the time, John Muccio, urged President Syngman Rhee and Defense Minister Shin Sung-mo to end summary executions, deemed illegal and inhumane. South Korean soldiers had shown “extreme cruelty” toward the prisoners at Dokchon, a US military police investigator, Sergeant Frank Pearce, said in a written report to his company commander on the shootings. He and other American witnesses reported that 200 to 300 prisoners, including women and a girl 12 or 13 years old, were killed by South Korean military police on 10 August 1950 on a mountain near the town. MORE